The Atlas of the Conflict is a beautiful book containing over 500 maps and diagrams providing both a great overview and very detailed information about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The author of …

As it happens you sometimes end up with a bunch of files which you would rather rename to something else and it'd be pretty sweet to just rename them like you would search and replace strings while …

Today I got asked if I could recover some photos from an accidentally formatted CompactFlash memory card. I knew about TestDisk already because I used it in the past to recover some files from …

Sometimes I interview people on IRC and one of the questions I'm asking is: Have you ever heard of Austria? If you have, what are the first three words that come to your mind? Because I have text …

If you are anything like me, you are connected to a large number of IRC networks and the accompanying channels. As it happens, I'm also developing for the web at the same time which usually involves …

Because sometimes it's just easier to find a dirty workaround than actually fixing the underlying problem. The problem: For some unknown reason pywhatauto is replacing my working cookie file for BTN …

AKA. Which movie should I watch today? Unfortunately the version of sort shipped with Mac OS doesn't include the -R / --random-sort option and shuf doesn't come by default. We'll have to install …

Just filing this away for future reference. If you want to run OpenVPN within a OpenVZ container you'll have to setup the iptables rules for the correct network interface ( You don't say!). Most …

If you are dealing with ebooks you are probably aware of Calibre. It's ugly and a pain to use but it's currently the only application to use if you are serious about organizing your books and/or sync …